Friday, June 1, 2012

"there's a certain curatorial sensibility at work, which has
occasionally led these artists to be branded with the unfortunate tag of
"hipster house." But the reality is that a huge swathe of the house and
techno community is currently preoccupied with retro forms. Artists as
diverse as the Dutch analog maverick Legowelt and Boston's
1990s-obsessed Soul Clap balance on the edge between paean and pastiche.
And while the comp includes some seriously retro jams, like Emotion II
Emotion's "Night and Day," songs like Leech's "Edgewise" and Garben
Eden's "Feel Good Agency" twist up old-school machine vibes into sounds
untethered from any particular era"